Victor Hugo Quotes
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.
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Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure.
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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
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Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
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Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.
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If there be devils, would I were a devil, To live and burn in everlasting fire, So I might have your company in hell, But to torment you with my bitter tongue!
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Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.
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I am aware that my musical style is not necessarily to the taste of all of you. I've got a heightened 'boredom factor' if music gets too redundant.
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And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.
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No torment in the world is comparable to an accusing conscience.
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Deep attention, the cognitive style traditionally associated with the humanities, is characterized by concentrating on a single object for long periods (say, a novel by Dickens), ignoring outside stimuli while so engaged, preferring a single information stream, and having a high tolerance for long focus times. Hyper attention is characterized by switching focus rapidly among different tasks, preferring multiple information streams, seeking a high level of stimulation, and having a low tolerance for boredom.
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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man.
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Do you love me Hero?" His pale green eyes were full of torment. "Do you love me like I love you?
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Why would you get up there and bore people? I never have figured that out. These people are supposedly in the entertainment industry, and they finally get up there to that podium and they become the most boring people in the world.
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I've had a couple of years where injuries have not let me develop in the way I wanted. When I was 21, after the European Championship, I had more injuries. Everything has been less continuous and it has cost me more progress. Continuity is what got me where I am.
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Thou hadst, for weary feet, the gift of rest.
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I want people to suffer less, and I think it's possible.
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They say that a few minutes each day of petting your dog can raise your serotonin levels.
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Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.
